THANK YOU to non-coffee-drinkers who have coffee making capacity at home, for guests. I am still traumatised by my friend's parents who felt that Folger's crystals were sufficient for this purpose.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2006 7:26:24 am PST #4528 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2006 7:30:03 am PST #4529 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
When I moved to DC, the big ATM network was MOST. Which, I'm sure led to the following exchange in some places:
DC resident: Does this machine take MOST cards?
Local: No, just [local network].
Also, bow-TEEK, "fountain" (South Central WI), and "pop" turned to "Coke" (Southernism).
Strix - Mar 17, 2006 7:32:25 am PST #4530 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
BOO-tique.
Grew up with a percolator. Familiar sounds and smells of brewing at 5 am every morning.
Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 15% Dixie 15% Yankee 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern
AND MISSOURI IS CRAZZZY. WE ARE NOT KANSAS, goddammit.
I'm writing an angry letter this weekend. Possibly a letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star.
GRRRR. Logic, much?
JenP - Mar 17, 2006 7:33:11 am PST #4531 of 10001
There are MAC machines in Delaware, too, but I don't know what it stands for. I call them ATMs. I used to call them cash flow machines, because that's what our college campus one was called, and that's when I first started using them.
So, what region is it that calls all soda coke? I know I did that as a kid, and then later switched to soda, but we were in Germany then, and I think when you asked for a coke, you usually got an actual Coke because that's what was there at the time, so...
sarameg - Mar 17, 2006 7:33:56 am PST #4532 of 10001
I usually have a jar of instant in the freezer. For my dad, who actually drinks gallons and gallons of that stuff and likes instant. I need to go get another before he visits again. He polished it off in January.
Strix - Mar 17, 2006 7:34:08 am PST #4533 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Coke is a Southern thing. Every soda is a coke.
And I was a "pop" sayer till I went to college.
Dana - Mar 17, 2006 7:34:18 am PST #4534 of 10001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
So, what region is it that calls all soda coke?
I think it's Deep South. That quiz didn't have an option for what I call soda, which is "soft drink". I also heard "cold drink" a lot in New Orleans.
Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2006 7:36:59 am PST #4535 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I picked up "Coke" in North Carolina. So it isn't confined entirely to the Deep, Deep South.
JenP - Mar 17, 2006 7:39:17 am PST #4536 of 10001
OK. My mother is from the South, so that's probably where we got it.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2006 7:39:21 am PST #4537 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My originally-from-Gulf-Coast-Texas grandmother always says "cold drink," but I always assumed it was because she's a teetotaller (how do you spell that, anyway), and doesn't want anyone to think she's offering a cocktail.